On April 27, 2019, Pitt Public Health celebrated recent graduates with awards given upon the culmination of a degree program. Delta Omega's honor society inductees were announced and outstanding thesis/essay and dissertation awards were conferred. Outstanding Student Awards were also given at both the master's and doctoral level, as well as Dean's Service Awards.
Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society
Omicron Chapter Awards
2019 Student Initiates
- Candice Leeann Biernesser, BCHS
- Emily Patrice Bobyock, EPIDEM
- Jacqueline Cohen, HUGEN
- Christian Garcia Calavaro, EPIDEM
- Karl G. Gibson, HPM
- Emma Karina Gyurisin, HUGEN
- Jennie E. Laeng, HPM
- Ashlyn CaDell Lancaster, IDM
- Audrey M. Semel, BCHS
- Erica E. Short, EPIDEM
- Avantika Srivastava, BIOST
- Brandon Trumbull, HPM
- Nefertiti Monai Wade, IDM
- Shu Wang, BIOST
- Gretchen Elizabeth White, EPIDEM
Master's Thesis/Essay Awards
- Stephanie Lynn Corey, EPIDEM
- Cory F. Hayes, IDM
- Beth Louise Hoffman, BCHS
- Yuanyuan Jiao, BIOST
- Caitlin E. Russell, HUGEN
- Alix Irene Ware, HPM
Doctoral Dissertation Awards
- Joanne Carolyn Beer, BIOST
- Jan Kristoff, IDM
- Cassandra Lynn Leighton, HPM
- Megan Michelle Marron, EPIDEM
- Jose Luis Andres Wilches-Gutierres, BCHS
Outstanding Student Awards
chosen by the department for academic excellence
Master's Level
- Rebecca Maria Clark, HUGEN
- James WIlliam Gallagher, HPM
- Alyson Blair Harding, EPIDEM
- Kelsey Jo Messerschmidt, IDM
- Xinhui Ran, BIOST
- Rachael Karin Richter, BCHS
Doctoral Level
- Lyndsay E. Avery, IDM
- Raj Gopalan Kumar, EPIDEM
- Cassandra Lynn Leighton, HPM
- Teagen Laine O'Malley, BCHS
- Ann R. Piccirillo, HUGEN
- Celeste Alexandra Shelton, HUGEN
- Di Zhang, BIOST
Dean's Service Awards
for service to the school and community
- Olivia Rose Messina, EPIDEM
- Vessela Miladinova, IDM
- Kelly Rice Williams, BCHS
- Di Zhang, BIOST
4/29/2019